Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following words and terms
when used in this article or in a program regulation adopted pursuant
to this article shall have the meaning next ascribed to them:
COMMUNITY ACTIVITY
A performance, exhibition, entertainment, festival, amusement,
sports event, dance, concert, circus, carnival, fair or the like:
(1)
Which is open to the general public;
(2)
Which is not held on church or school grounds or in a church
or school building; and
(3)
Which is attended by 200 or more individuals per day.
DEPARTMENT
The Refuse Collection and Recyclable Collection Department
of the Borough or the Department officers.
DEPARTMENT OFFICER
An employee in the Department who has been appointed by Council or authorized by the Borough Manager to perform the duties and carry out the responsibilities assigned by this article and by Article
I of this chapter and to exercise the powers granted by this article and by Article
I of this chapter.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
A facility which houses or serves groups of people or which
serves the public, as for example: a church, school, day-care center,
hospital, nursing home, jail, library, post office, courthouse or
stadium. Any establishment or use which is not a residential establishment
or use, a commercial establishment or use, an industrial establishment
or use, or a municipal establishment or use shall be deemed to be
an institutional establishment.
ON-PROPERTY RECYCLABLE COLLECTION SYSTEM
A system on a property for collecting recyclable materials
which meets the following minimum criteria:
(1)
The system has an on-property recyclable collection station
which is in a location easily accessible to the occupants of the property
and which is available for use by the occupants at times reasonably
convenient to the occupants; and
(2)
The system has written instructions to the occupants of the
property concerning the use and availability of the on-property recyclable
collection station.
ON-PROPERTY RECYCLABLE COLLECTION STATION
A dropoff collection point or area which is located indoors
or outdoors on a property and which has containers, bins or the like
for different classes of sorted recyclable materials, and into which
the occupants of the property are to deposit (and thus surrender)
their different classes of sorted recyclable materials.
OWNER; PROPERTY
Each of these words is defined in Article
I of this chapter by reference to §
192-14E of Chapter
192, Article
II, Sewer Rents and Service Charges, and those definitions are incorporated herein by reference.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, association, establishment,
business firm, institution, charitable organization, community activity,
profit or nonprofit corporation, government body, government agency,
municipal authority, municipal body, municipal agency, or other entity.
PROGRAM REGULATIONS
The regulations adopted by the Borough Council pursuant to
this article and governing the administration and operation of the
Borough's Municipal Recycling Program and its component programs (such
as the residential recycling and collection program, the nonresidential
recycling and collection program, the leaf disposal program, the yard
waste disposal program, and the Christmas tree disposal program).
RECYCLABLE MATERIAL
A material which has been determined to be recyclable by
the Borough (in accordance with the mandates of the Municipal Waste
Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction Act) and which has been designated
by the program regulations as one to be source-separated (from other
solid waste generated at the source) in order to be recovered, collected,
processed and returned to the public in the form of a reusable material
or product. In general, a recyclable material has two characteristics:
a) what it is made of; and b) what it was last used for. By way of
example, an aluminum can which was last used as a container for a
carbonated beverage, soda, fruit juice, or beer is a recyclable material.
RECYCLING CONTAINER
(1)
The blue container provided by the Borough (as part of its residential
recycling and collection program) to residents in the Borough for
the purpose of storing different classes of sorted recyclable materials,
and the container to be placed or set out for collection by the Borough
collection service at what is commonly referred to as the "curbside
collection point"; or
(2)
The container approved by the Borough (for use in its nonresidential
recycling and collection program) as a container for storing one or
more classes of sorted recyclable materials.
REFUSE
Ashes, garbage, and rubbish (as each of these words is defined in Article
I of this chapter), after all recyclable materials, leaves, yard waste, and Christmas trees have been removed therefrom. Until changed by a program regulation, grass clippings are to be considered as refuse and, thus, need not be separated and removed from refuse.
SOLID WASTE
In general, for the purposes of the collection or disposal
services which the Borough provides, "solid waste" is the term used
for those things which a person discards and which fall into one of
the following categories: recyclable materials; leaves; yard waste;
refuse.
SOURCE-SEPARATE (or a similar term)
The duty of a person to separate recyclable materials, leaves,
yard waste, and refuse from each other at the point where they are
generated (or discarded). The saying is: "That which was generated
(or discarded) at the source is to be separated at the source."
YARD WASTE
Brush, shrubbery and tree trimmings, yard or garden trimmings,
and similar materials, after all grass clippings, leaves, recyclable
materials, and refuse have been removed therefrom.